Hankie alert. Remarkable women restoring sight to blind Indian dancing bears.

[snagglepuss]

Lily has suffered much in her 13 years. First, her mother was killed when she was a cub. Then she was snatched from the wild by a violent gang to join their pitiful troupe of dancing bears.

Like all the other animals in this troupe, her nose was pierced with a red-hot needle and a rope fed through the hole. She was forced to ‘dance’ on a burning plate and, if she refused, she was clubbed over the head.

As she grew, her ability to fight back was curtailed: the gang snapped off her claws with pliers and smashed in her teeth with iron chisels. Tied to a post at night, she was fed swill devoid of nutrition.

Not surprisingly, Lily, a sloth bear, developed severe cataracts. By the age of five, all she could see of her cruel world in her captive Indian home was viewed through a milky lens. She was almost totally blind.



Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1391313/The-bear-repair-squad-The-remarkable-British-women-restoring-sight-Indias-blind-dancing-bears-.html#ixzz1NVvKmqEx

[sasha031]

1. the cruelty of so called humans

thankfully there are very good people.

[no_hypocrisy]

2. That is SO COOL that the bears are given their sight, health, and dignity back.

[Vehl]

3. The world needs more people like her! K&R

Torturing animals who cannot speak against the atrocities they suffer is truly disgusting and should be stopped at all cost. I hope the perpetrators get punished.